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    Rapid Appraisal of the State of Competition in the Rice Value Chain

    Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2014
    The rapid appraisal is based on the interview of select players in various levels of the palay/rice value chain from Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija to Metro Manila. It finds that the paddy and rice supply chain is multilayered with many competing players in each layer, and with no evidence of any cartel-like behavior in the areas studied.
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    Impediments to contract enforcement in day labour markets: A Perspective from India

    2014
    In developing countries, lack of formal contract enforcement mechanisms is compensated by informal or relational governance enforced through trust, kinship, reputation, etc. This paper focuses on one such setting in India's urban informal economy: the 'day labour' market for casual labour.
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    The causal impact of algorithmic trading on market quality

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Technology has played an increasingly important role in the development of securities markets since the 1990s. It was readily embraced in the back-end functions of clearing and settlement at exchanges, but it has played a more controversial role in the trading process. Earlier, in the 1970s, there was much debate about moving from open outcry markets to electronic limit order book markets.
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    Unemployment burden and its distribution: Theory and evidence from India

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    This paper develops a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of unemployment and that satisfies several desirable properties, including distribution sensitivity (dealing with differences among the unemployed). It can also be decomposed into mean and distributional components and contributions to unemployment by various subgroups of the population.
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    Prospect of India-Ethiopia investment and trade cooperation

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    In recent years, with the opening up of the Ethiopian and India economy, investment and trade ties between the two countries have grown significantly. While Ethiopia’s major exports are food and live animals, coffee and tea, crude materials and vegetable and fruits, India’s major import items are manufactured products and fuels.
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    Promoting resource efficiency along the value chains of key sectors in South Asia

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Policy-makers in South Asia as well as other developing economies are increasingly focusing on the development of small &medium enterprises (SME) and agro-based value chains as a means of promoting economic growth and poverty reduction.
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    Promoting resource efficiency along the supply chain of key sectors: stimulating knowledge partnership in South Asia

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2015
    Rapid development coupled with high population growth in South Asia has led to unsustainable use of natural resources resulting in serious environmental and social problems. These problems may constraint growth
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    Exploring and developing environmental economic policies for China in the new era

    Chinese Academy for Environmental Planning, 2010
    The environmental economic policies are mechanisms and regimes that regulate and influence people’s behaviors of making or eliminating pollution and ecological degradation aiming at socio-economic sustainable development by employing such economic leverages as financing, taxation, pricing, credit, investment, and market instruments based on the theories of environmental economics and mark
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    The Hong Kong Declaration and agriculture: implications for Bangladesh

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2007
    The Hong Kong Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Hong Kong, China during 13-18 December 2005, was concluded with a Ministerial Declaration (WTO, 2005). Through this Declaration, WTO members agreed on various negotiating issues including agriculture and this is going to guide the final set of discussions towards the successful conclusion of the Doha Round.
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    Maximising positive impacts of mining projects: stakeholders and partnerships

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Despite the fact that mining-led growth is one of the few opportunities low-income African nations have of catching up with other countries, mining in Africa is not seen as creating local benefits. There is little co-operation among stakeholders in the minerals sector and long-term planning is poor.

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